My Mother’s Father had a cousin who flew this airplane with the Luftwaffe , Jagdgeschwader 77 , earning the German and Iron Cross and became an Ace . New Jersey , USA 🇺🇸
It's amazing that with any of these warbird videos the arguments that crop up about what plane can do what & this & that. We all have our favorites from that distant past. To me, it was just the sheer volume of aircraft in the air that was mind boggling. Those times will never be again. This is a fine example of a 109 & the supercharger has a sound all its own.
Beautiful plane. Fuel-injected, liquid-cooled, inverted V-12 generating 1775 hp, with four 7.92mm guns. Oh, and don't forget about the 20mm autocannon firing through the propeller hub. At the time, this plane was simply astonishing.
this (for me) is a very beautiful and clean fighter. thin minimal-drag wings, powerful engine, reasonable performance at all but the highest altitudes, devastating armament (2X 13mm MG131 nose mounted and a 15/20mm MG151 or 30mm MK108 firing thru the hub)... beautiful.
Poetry in motion, and the engine sings an aria. This vid is beautiful, the plane is gorgeous. Thank you for keeping such a magnificent piece of history alive.
Once a state of the art warmachine, now just a bygone relic from a bygone eare . Flown by some of the best ace's the world has ever know'n . In it's day it was one among thousand's . Now just one among the last few of it's kind . .
Amazing!, the sound of this warbird is quite unique. You can recognize a 109 becasue of the sound of its Damlier Benz right away. Beautiful warbird!. -Cheers!
Wunderbar!! What a wonderful aircraft it was and, like someone already said here, this pilot makes it look a cinch to fly although it was notoriously tricky. This is an excellent clip with terrific sound, thank you!
This is a superb video of this magnificent fighter plane. It is always great to see that these warplanes can still ggrace the skies as they did during their historic heydays. Great work and thanks for sharing it! Ken Palmer
It's amazing to see WWII warplanes in old WWII B&W footage and then see them in real modern color camera footage. It just goes to show you that the country music song "In Color" is true. When they are in B&W, it doesn't seem real until you have seen it in color.
The reason for the painted swirl was "safety". After arming and refueling these types of aircraft for months on end it was easy to overlook the noise of a running engine. Ground crew and anyone in proximity to a spinning prop needed a visual "reference" as to whether or not there was the possibility of injury. Thus the "painted spinner".
for the guys who dont speak german, the pilot is talking about the throttle he uses, the machine has no weapons onboard so it is about a half ton lighter . he only uses 2/3 of the max power for the take off. hope it helps :)
Real nice aircraft, good film. I liked the G2 best as it was a good all round plane, the G10 was a great plane at altitude,it was well armed and power full but lacked the nimbleness of the G2. Thank you for sharing this film. :)
They had initial plans to produce a number of new-build Me-109s, but the lack of surviving engines prevented this project. They have been working on a Fw190D-9 project that will use a modified Allison V12 with custom exhausts. One has been delivered to a customer, but has not flown yet. I don't know how many D-9s they plan to build.
@groovy67 You got that right! Many had accidents on takeoff too. Not hard to believe, with the sideways torque of the engine, the narrow landing gear footprint, and the lack of forward view over the cowling. What a thrill to be able to fly one of these birds. No other sound like it...
P-51 pilots were instructed not to fly inverted for longer than 10 seconds because the Merlin would begin to have damage from oil starvation. So a 20+ mile flight across the Channel without oil is pure bunk. However, the radials such as the R-2800 had a reputation for ruggedness and brought pilots home after having severe damage.
The E,F,G and K model were responsible for destroying more planes than any other in history. It is THE most successful fighter plane in the history of air warfare by far. It was also the personal mount to not only the highest scoring aces ever, but the most aces as well.
When the war moved back into Europe it was the Spits and Hurricans that needed the big fuel loads and that was a big problem until long range versions and P51s came on line.
Forget the Me 109 for a minute..I saw a Feisler Storch at an air display at Liverpool airport and with a slight headwind it could actually hover..absolutely brilliant..I also saw a Me 108(No ..not a 109) at the same show..it looked identical..but strangely fragile for a war plane.Inverted 'V' fuel injected engine...they were Sooooooo advanced.The cannon used to recoil between the pilots feet there was so little room.
Hi, have a book that says the spiral was to put allied gunners of their aim, "The spinner is decorated with the widely used 'Spiralschnauze' marking designed to put bomber gunners off their aim - a marking that was surprisingly effective". I also heard in a documentary that that this was so they could be identified as German aircrafts from the front. It is of cause also incredibly cool.
@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH My understanding was that negative G caused a momentary fuel starvation that, due to the float in the carb being forced to the bottom, developed in to a massive fuel overflow which led to a disasterous engine shut down. Miss Shillings device largely prevented this on the Merlins. Flying inverted in level flight is negative G just as pitching the nose continuously down from normal flight.
They designed it that way so that there would be no need for hard points in the wing to support the landing gear. This enabled the wings to be lighter.
Original Me 109 engine was a DB601 inverted vee-12 engine while the Merlin was right side up v12. Me109 also had fuel injection and turbo charging for higher power at altitude. The power of those engines on the small airframe/ spindly narrow track undercarriage made handling on the ground tricky and dangerous and led to many losses by accident rather than enemy action, this comes over well in this video
The original plan for Black 6 was to fly it for a limited time and put it in the museum. I think the mishap happened on the final flight, unfortunately. It's been fully repaired. You are correct that it's one of the most original examples left and too valuable to risk.
True. The landing gear were a problem that plagued the 109 until the end of the war. Same with the Spitfire to a certain degree. The Spit's successor, the Supermarine Spiteful used wider spaced inward retracting gear. I think maybe the final Spitfire marks did as well.
@Mullay2 Only the prototype Fw190 had the oversized spinner. Overheating was such a problem that it led the test pilot to comment that it was like sitting with his feet in a fireplace. The cockpit was moved rearward and the production Fw190s had a geared cooling fan behind the propeller (geared to rotate at 3x propeller speed) for forced-air cooling.
@FrancoHitlini Agreed. His unconventional attitude towards military life surely made a name for him. Nearly all leading aces say he was the best shot in the Luftwaffe. He certainly will be remembered for some time to come! I do admire his accomplishments.
so that ground crew could know which engines were running in a busy maintenance aree.people walked into turning propellers more than you might imagine..the corkscrew on the propeller boss made it easy to spot the danger.
There are 3 109s that still fly here in Germany with Original Engines! They are from EADS / Messerschmidt Stiftung in Manching, Germany. These one seen on the vid is beeing rebuilt after a bad crash it had. It was from private persons, but they don´t have the money to restaurate it and therefor the messerschmidt Stiftung bought it.
It's a real on. The Spanish counterparts used Merlin engines and also has a different nose to comply with the merlin engine. Easy to tell: German 109 has exhausts on the bottom section while the Spanish 109 have exhausts on the top section.
Spitfires were converted to use from aircraft carriers..They were named 'seafires' and the landing gear was widened to accomodate a heaving deck.Spitfires were constantly upgraded through the war ..one model was a whole new ball game but looked identical to its predecessors except that it was four inches longer..not noticable to German Pilots at first sighting.....until they had to mix it with them..Mitchell got the airframe right with the first designs..a real love affair..which never ends!
@justforever96 Agree that the 109s certainly outclassed Hurricans in a straight fight but its overall success was due to many other factors. Its construction enabled it to be readily repaired if damaged, over home ground had a better chance of landing if damaged, could stay and fight longer when the enemy had to cut and run while he still had fuel to get home.
My Mother’s Father had a cousin who flew this airplane with the Luftwaffe , Jagdgeschwader 77 , earning the German and Iron Cross and became an Ace .
New Jersey , USA 🇺🇸
You can almost FEEL the Supercharger WHISTLE ! -- AWESOME SOUND !
Man I love the G model of the 109. Plus the nose art looks really awesome and the engine sounds so menacing. Thanks for uploading. What a beaut!
Never get sick of hearing this aircraft at full throttle.
'Beautiful'
It's amazing that with any of these warbird videos the arguments that crop up about what plane can do what & this & that. We all have our favorites from that distant past. To me, it was just the sheer volume of aircraft in the air that was mind boggling. Those times will never be again. This is a fine example of a 109 & the supercharger has a sound all its own.
That was one sweet landing!
Beautiful plane. Fuel-injected, liquid-cooled, inverted V-12 generating 1775 hp, with four 7.92mm guns. Oh, and don't forget about the 20mm autocannon firing through the propeller hub. At the time, this plane was simply astonishing.
this (for me) is a very beautiful and clean fighter. thin minimal-drag wings, powerful engine, reasonable performance at all but the highest altitudes, devastating armament (2X 13mm MG131 nose mounted and a 15/20mm MG151 or 30mm MK108 firing thru the hub)... beautiful.
Ein einmaliges Flugzeug die 109!
Und der Sound des Motors, unverkennbar den hört man sofort raus!
Poetry in motion, and the engine sings an aria. This vid is beautiful, the plane is gorgeous. Thank you for keeping such a magnificent piece of history alive.
However, there is absolutely nothing on earth like hearing one of those fly over in person. Absolutely beautiful.
Quality German engineering! The sheer number of 109's built and the even bigger number of variants is mind-boggling! Awesome!
ME109 & the Spitfire
two legends of WWII from start to finish!
this video is a thousand times better filmed than every other youtube aircraft clip I've ever seen!
It's really nice to see these old warbirds still flying, they are living history.
Beautiful sound at start and during flying
Great classic restore. 🎉
es un sueño... hecho realidad... el poder ver a un Me 109 en vuelo y al escuchar ese motor... me producen escalofrios de la emocion....
DANKEN....
What a magnificent machine. A thrill to see and hear , thanks for posting.
The Bf 109 was a formidable opponent in the hands of a skilled pilot. Nicely restored example this one.
Excellent sequence and the engine sounds great,these aircraft are as much a part of aviation history as the Spitfire and P-51.
Unbeschreiblich dieser Sound. Der DB 605 klingt einfach einzigartig atemberaubend!
Once a state of the art warmachine, now just a bygone relic from a bygone eare .
Flown by some of the best ace's the world has ever know'n .
In it's day it was one among thousand's .
Now just one among the last few of it's kind .
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Damn that is a sweet sounding war bird there. Glad to see someone still not afraid to put it up! Thanks!
Best sounding fighter plane ever built, past, present, and future
Amazing!, the sound of this warbird is quite unique. You can recognize a 109 becasue of the sound of its Damlier Benz right away. Beautiful warbird!.
-Cheers!
That thing sings. And man what a voice !!!
I'm happy you posted that comment. This "ultimate" multipurpose plane is really underrated.
What a handsome aircraft,love the victory roll and landing,very very nice.
Wunderbar!! What a wonderful aircraft it was and, like someone already said here, this pilot makes it look a cinch to fly although it was notoriously tricky. This is an excellent clip with terrific sound, thank you!
klasse Maschine... hat den außergewöhnlichsten Sound überhaupt in dieser Klasse finde ich.
This is a superb video of this magnificent fighter plane. It is always great to see that these warplanes can still ggrace the skies as they did during their historic heydays. Great work and thanks for sharing it!
Ken Palmer
No matter how many times I see and hear it... the daimler has by far the coolest sound ever among the v12 engines!
You got to love the sound of that machine.
Look at that engine... that is what you can call a well engineered machine!
It's amazing to see WWII warplanes in old WWII B&W footage and then see them in real modern color camera footage. It just goes to show you that the country music song "In Color" is true. When they are in B&W, it doesn't seem real until you have seen it in color.
This is the pure breed hunter. Nice to hear that supercharger at work...
Thank u , for preserving that Awesome Birds.....
Das koenig von Luftwaffe !!!
Nothing can beat the sound of a Me-109 at full throttle!
I love how the supercharger sounds!! great!! chuck norris extreme plane!
Nice Nice sound....I could listen to that all day long.......
Most beautiful aircraft of all times.
The reason for the painted swirl was "safety". After arming and refueling these types of aircraft for months on end it was easy to overlook the noise of a running engine. Ground crew and anyone in proximity to a spinning prop needed a visual "reference" as to whether or not there was the possibility of injury. Thus the "painted spinner".
for the guys who dont speak german, the pilot is talking about the throttle he uses, the machine has no weapons onboard so it is about a half ton lighter . he only uses 2/3 of the max power for the take off.
hope it helps :)
I love the sound of that near wail as it passes by.
Dat's great! 109s had so awesome rattling sound...DB605 engines!
Real nice aircraft, good film.
I liked the G2 best as it was a good all round plane, the G10 was a great plane at altitude,it was well armed and power full but lacked the nimbleness of the G2.
Thank you for sharing this film. :)
They had initial plans to produce a number of new-build Me-109s, but the lack of surviving engines prevented this project. They have been working on a Fw190D-9 project that will use a modified Allison V12 with custom exhausts. One has been delivered to a customer, but has not flown yet. I don't know how many D-9s they plan to build.
@groovy67 You got that right! Many had accidents on takeoff too. Not hard to believe, with the sideways torque of the engine, the narrow landing gear footprint, and the lack of forward view over the cowling. What a thrill to be able to fly one of these birds. No other sound like it...
It sounds beautiful flying overhead. awesome machine.
Ästhetik in Perfektion......phantastisches Flugzeug !
P-51 pilots were instructed not to fly inverted for longer than 10 seconds because the Merlin would begin to have damage from oil starvation. So a 20+ mile flight across the Channel without oil is pure bunk. However, the radials such as the R-2800 had a reputation for ruggedness and brought pilots home after having severe damage.
The E,F,G and K model were responsible for destroying more planes than any other in history. It is THE most successful fighter plane in the history of air warfare by far. It was also the personal mount to not only the highest scoring aces ever, but the most aces as well.
When the war moved back into Europe it was the Spits and Hurricans that needed the big fuel loads and that was a big problem until long range versions and P51s came on line.
Forget the Me 109 for a minute..I saw a Feisler Storch at an air display at Liverpool airport and with a slight headwind it could actually hover..absolutely brilliant..I also saw a Me 108(No ..not a 109) at the same show..it looked identical..but strangely fragile for a war plane.Inverted 'V' fuel injected engine...they were Sooooooo advanced.The cannon used to recoil between the pilots feet there was so little room.
Hi, have a book that says the spiral was to put allied gunners of their aim, "The spinner is decorated with the widely used 'Spiralschnauze' marking designed to put bomber gunners off their aim - a marking that was surprisingly effective". I also heard in a documentary that that this was so they could be identified as German aircrafts from the front. It is of cause also incredibly cool.
@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH
My understanding was that negative G caused a momentary fuel starvation that, due to the float in the carb being forced to the bottom, developed in to a massive fuel overflow which led to a disasterous engine shut down. Miss Shillings device largely prevented this on the Merlins. Flying inverted in level flight is negative G just as pitching the nose continuously down from normal flight.
They designed it that way so that there would be no need for hard points in the wing to support the landing gear. This enabled the wings to be lighter.
Wonderful turbocharger whine! A beautiful 109.
Words can not express the awesome.
That .. is one incredible machine.
Original Me 109 engine was a DB601 inverted vee-12 engine while the Merlin was right side up v12. Me109 also had fuel injection and turbo charging for higher power at altitude. The power of those engines on the small airframe/ spindly narrow track undercarriage made handling on the ground tricky and dangerous and led to many losses by accident rather than enemy action, this comes over well in this video
2:09 the sound is SO beautiful!!!
@bgm1958
The coolant radiator flaps. The oil cooler is under the motor. Flaps can be controlled automatically or manually by the pilot.
The original plan for Black 6 was to fly it for a limited time and put it in the museum. I think the mishap happened on the final flight, unfortunately. It's been fully repaired. You are correct that it's one of the most original examples left and too valuable to risk.
Gotta love the sound of that DB-605
the engine sound is absolutely amazing.... love it !
Would love to hear and watch this plane fly by in person. What a beautiful design (Save for the landing gear!)
True. The landing gear were a problem that plagued the 109 until the end of the war. Same with the Spitfire to a certain degree. The Spit's successor, the Supermarine Spiteful used wider spaced inward retracting gear. I think maybe the final Spitfire marks did as well.
WOW,,,what a sound, what an aircraft....fantastic
Best 109 vid on youtube, that Daimler benz engine is AWESOME!
The best sounding fighter!!! I reckon this has a better sound than a merlin.
Absolutely beautiful! I wish there were 109's in the sky now. What an amazing sound!
Fantastic display !
And thanks for not putting lame music or comments over the sound of the engine.
U rock for posting this - FINALLY, a look under the hood! Brilliant. Dzien kuje, gracias, grazzi, danke, spasiba, merci, and thanks!
mi avion favorito, desde su diseño unico hasta su capacidad destructiva.
The engine looks like new, Beautyfull!
Excellent engineering, the best!!! Thank you!!
@Mullay2
Only the prototype Fw190 had the oversized spinner. Overheating was such a problem that it led the test pilot to comment that it was like sitting with his feet in a fireplace. The cockpit was moved rearward and the production Fw190s had a geared cooling fan behind the propeller (geared to rotate at 3x propeller speed) for forced-air cooling.
Beautiful machine, white wing tips and fuselage band indicate Mediterranean Theatre of Operations.
@FrancoHitlini Agreed. His unconventional attitude towards military life surely made a name for him. Nearly all leading aces say he was the best shot in the Luftwaffe. He certainly will be remembered for some time to come! I do admire his accomplishments.
so that ground crew could know which engines were running in a busy maintenance aree.people walked into turning propellers more than you might imagine..the corkscrew on the propeller boss made it easy to spot the danger.
When I hear the sound of Bf 209 my heart melts...
Sweetest engine sound in the world. Bring back the BF 109!!
What a gorgeous aircraft!
great job getting her flying again!
It would be so cool to see a restored 109 and Spitfire IX in a mock dogfight
Beautiful warbird. Great landing.
the sound of that engine is orgasmic!!!
There are 3 109s that still fly here in Germany with Original Engines! They are from EADS / Messerschmidt Stiftung in Manching, Germany. These one seen on the vid is beeing rebuilt after a bad crash it had. It was from private persons, but they don´t have the money to restaurate it and therefor the messerschmidt Stiftung bought it.
Absolutely gorgeous!!! I love this aircraft!!!
Eric Brown loved those toggle latches that hold the engine cover down. He said the screw fasteners on the Spitfire were just plain inferior.
just gorgeous
2:06 I LOVE the whistle of that Daimler Benz DB605 engine!
It's a real on. The Spanish counterparts used Merlin engines and also has a different nose to comply with the merlin engine.
Easy to tell:
German 109 has exhausts on the bottom section while the Spanish 109 have exhausts on the top section.
What an impressive aircraft.
I have one word.......perfection.....
What a great video! And a proper engine (not RR)! Pilot working pretty hard on rudders (touchdown and takeoff). I wish could have a go!
Just beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Spitfires were converted to use from aircraft carriers..They were named 'seafires' and the landing gear was widened to accomodate a heaving deck.Spitfires were constantly upgraded through the war ..one model was a whole new ball game but looked identical to its predecessors except that it was four inches longer..not noticable to German Pilots at first sighting.....until they had to mix it with them..Mitchell got the airframe right with the first designs..a real love affair..which never ends!
@justforever96
Agree that the 109s certainly outclassed Hurricans in a straight fight but its overall success was due to many other factors. Its construction enabled it to be readily repaired if damaged, over home ground had a better chance of landing if damaged, could stay and fight longer when the enemy had to cut and run while he still had fuel to get home.